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0. F. PALMER.

IRON FENCE RAILING.

Patented Apr. 19, 1887.

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CYRUS F. PALMER, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK.

IRON FENCE-RAILING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,542, dated April 19, 1887.

' Application filed July v1, 1885. Serial No.170.359. (No model.)

have invented cert-ain'new and useful Improvements in Iron Fence-Railings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apper: tains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to construct an iron picket fence, and devices for putting such fences together, which shall be cheap, dura ble, and simple in construction; and to that end the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed outin the claims at the end of the specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a detail view of one of my improved collars in section. Fig. 2 is a view of the same, showing the lower lips of the collar opened up and out to hold the horizontal rail-fence in place and to hold the picket firmly to the rail. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the collar showing the sec tions slightly apart.

The invention consists in providing the collar with the shoulder which shoulder extends beyond the outer vertical plane of the lip g, and which is adapted to receive the pressure of the lip y when the lip is bent out and up against the shoulder g, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The collar is tapered on the diagonal slant a, and the inner face of the collar has also a vertical face, b. This is admirably adapted to receive the picket and hold itin place withoutliability of the picketsslipping up or down through the collar. This collar is made in sections, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The outer face of the main portion of the collar, 9 g, is straight. Each side of this straight portion 9 g-that is,both above and below it-is a flanged portion, which holds the rail in place, the lip g forming a flange in one instance, and the shoulder or outer ring, h, forming the upper one.

B designates the picket, which is secured within the collar, as shown, said picket being recessed to receive the'inner portion of the collar, as clearly shown in the drawings. 0

designates the rail. By reference to the drawings it will be observed that the legs on the lower portion of the collar are inside of the metal which forms the body of the ring or collar, and they are bent out to embrace the stretcher or rail without in any way disturbing the material of the latter, as would bethe effect if the lugs were driven against the inner end of the stretcher or rail as they are driven outward and up against the shoulder 9 as they are bent to hold the rail or stretcher in position.

The advantages of this construction are obvious, as it often occurs that the parts which go to make up a fence are manufactured complete and painted before the fence is put together, so that in bending the lower ribs of the collar out to hold the rail or stretcher in place the ordinary construction used batters the ends of the stretcher in such shape as to split the latter up and mar the stretcher at this point.

Another advantage is, by bending the lips out, as I do, and bending them up against the shoulder g on the collar, there is no strain on the stretcher, and, secondly, no liability of twisting the collar out of perpendicular or out of shape in the fence.

Having now described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent, and what I therefore claim, is-

w 1. In a picket-fence fastening, the collar made in sections and provided with a shoulder on the lower portions, and a lip which is back of the shoulder and extends below the lower portion of said shoulder and is adapted to be bent out and up against the end of the shoulder and embrace the rail, substantially as described.

2. In a picket-fence fastening, the combination of a collar constructed insections and hav ing shoulders on the lower outside portion, and lips which extend below the lower limit of the shoulders and somewhat back of the shoulders,with the picket and the rail, all constructed and adapted to be secured together, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CYRUS F. PALMER XVitnesses:

WILLIAM S. FOSTER, J LEWIs J ONES. 

